SPCH 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Generative Art
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They will be able to understand different choices that people and themselves must make, and can persuade people to make specific choices. The agent is the person doing the persuading. Ethos: ethos is involved because to persuade the audience and be trustworthy the agent needs to have and build credibility, having credibility also builds the agent"s argument and makes it seem true. Rhetoric emphasizes the commonality that people share: for example, people among the same culture may have the same view about the topic of racism. They may share the idea that racism cannot be stopped, that is because it is a common belief in their culture. Rhetoric emphasizes the differences among people: for example, people may have different perspectives on what success is. Some may believe that you become successful because of luck and others may believe that you become successful because of hard work.